Every single one of us has to do some selling in their job. Now more than ever, IT and security leaders see the value of being cloud-first — but sometimes others still need convincing. In this episode of “The Reimagine Series,” John Thompson, Chairman of Microsoft, joins Sanjay Beri, CEO of Netskope, to talk about technology, cybersecurity, and how the best leaders get others to buy into the strategy and vision needed to execute in today’s complex business environment. Get sage advice from John ranging from his career at IBM to CEO of Symantec, to VC investor with Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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John Thompson
Chairman, Microsoft
Venture Partner at Lightspeed
John Thompson is currently a Venture Partner at Lightspeed and also currently the Chairman of Microsoft. Prior to Lightspeed, John has more than 40 years of enterprise leadership and entrepreneurial experience. He served as CEO at Virtual Instruments and Symantec, and worked at IBM for 28 years, where he worked his way up from sales to general manager.
Sanjay Beri
Fundador e CEO
Netskope
Sanjay brings more than two decades of innovation and success in the cloud, networking, and security industries. Prior to Netskope, Sanjay was VP & GM of Juniper Networks’ secure access business unit, driving it to market leadership throughout his tenure. He is also the co-founder of one of the world’s first data center encryption companies, Ingrian Networks, and has held leadership positions across numerous other security and networking companies.